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I think Andrew McCarthy wins the line of the day contest this morning with the opening of his National Review essay Apes, Pigs, and F-16s. The F16s, as anyone following the news knows, are the advanced US fighter jets that we’re crating up and sending to our good friend Mohammed Morsi, the President of Egypt [...]

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